Official Site:Â World of Warcraft
Studio:Â Blizzard Entertainment
Launch Date:Â November 23, 2014
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Subscription (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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The Daily Grind: What will be the next MMO to undergo a big business model shift?
2023 turned out to be a weird year for business models in MMOs. It was certainly the year of cadence shifts and seasonal shifts,...
Massively Overthinking: The slowest and fastest combat in MMORPGs
During a recent podcast discussion about City of Heroes' official revival, the MOP writers were talking about its combat, which - let's be honest...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
World of Warcraft’s Seeds of Renewal update is set to go live tonight
The epilogue for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight is here... in many ways. Sure, today's Seeds of Renewal update literally includes an epilogue for the...
Peeking into everything coming in World of Warcraft’s patch 10.2.5 next week
On January 16th, World of Warcraft's next major patch arrives, and there have already been a few articles previewing the upcoming content. But maybe...
World of Warcraft previews the Azerothian Archives arriving in Seeds of Renewal
Remember when Archaeology was the hip happening new thing in World of Warcraft? That didn't really work out, but the Azerothian Archives content that's...
World of Warcraft opens player votes for tier set appearances and bonuses
There is to be a fourth season for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, and that means that players will still be chasing the dragon of...
Casually Classic: 12 quality-of-life improvements coming with Cataclysm Classic
I'm in a very strange place in relation to the upcoming Cataclysm Classic. I kind of didn't want this expansion to happen at all for...
WoW Classic’s second phase of the Season of Discovery arrives February 8
The next month will bring more opportunities for players of WoW Classic to find runes, tweak their characters, and earn some levels along the...
Whatever happened to Allods Online? Let’s check in at the top of 2024
Once a highly favorable free alternative to World of Warcraft, Allods Online isn't the kind of MMO that's mentioned too often these days, especially...
Police use a World of Warcraft account to track down and arrest a man allegedly hiding a minor
We have our first Florida Man story of 2024 on our corner of the internet, primarily because tracking down and finding him involved using...
Global Chat: What’s the best Wrath of the Lich King zone?
With Wrath Classic starting to wrap up, The Ancient Gaming Noob figured that this was the perfect time to rank the famous expansion's zones....
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2024
For our first Massively Overthinking of the year, we're drawing a hard line between what we think will happen, what we mean to make...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023
If preserving MMORPGs is your jam, 2023 was not a great year. The one nice thing I can say about it is that we...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
Vague Patch Notes: MMOs are still just games you rent
When I was a teenager, I accidentally stole a few games from a video rental place. You might wonder how you accidentally steal something,...
End-of-Year Eleven: All the upcoming MMOs to watch in 2024 and beyond
We've said it before, but this time we really mean it: The future of MMORPGs looks amazing. Contrary to years when we've seen only...
World of Warcraft’s next patch, Seeds of Renewal, arrives on January 16
It's a new year, but just like last year, World of Warcraft does not care one whit what the words "this week" mean. Proof?...
Following Bobby Kotick’s exit, former ABK devs call out his toxic management and Overwatch 2 sabotage
Now that Bobby Kotick has floated away from Activision-Blizzard on a doubtlessly diamond-encrusted platinum parachute, some former developers at Blizzard are feeling confident enough...
The Daily Grind: Who told the biggest gaming fib of 2023?
Did you know I keep a list of quotes and fibs? Well, you probably did, since we already did our annual piece on the...
